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Discriminative Joint Context for Automatic Landmark Set Detection from a Single Cardiac MR Long Axis Slice

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Discriminative Joint Context for Automatic Landmark Set Detection from a Single Cardiac MR Long Axis Slice
Cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has advanced to become a powerful diagnostic tool in clinical practice. Automatic detection of anatomic landmarks from MR images is important for structural and functional analysis of the heart. Learning-based object detection methods have demonstrated their capabilities to handle large variations of the object by exploring a local region, context, around the target. Conventional context is associated with each individual landmark to encode local shape and appearance evidence. We extend this concept to a landmark set, where multiple landmarks have connections at the semantic level, e.g., landmarks belonging to the same anatomy. We propose a joint context approach to construct contextual regions between landmarks. A discriminative model is learned to utilize inter-landmark features for landmark set detection as an entirety. This helps resolve ambiguities of individual landmark detection results. A probabilistic boosting tree is used to learn a dis...
Xiaoguang Lu, Bogdan Georgescu, Arne Littmann, Edg
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Type Journal
Year 2009
Where FIMH
Authors Xiaoguang Lu, Bogdan Georgescu, Arne Littmann, Edgar Mueller, Dorin Comaniciu
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